Thursday, November 12, 2015

No, No, No Negative Nancy

I've reached passed 15,000 words and I'm so behind in the word count. I think what is truly destroying the creativity is the word count and the deadline. As soon as I get a deadline, I freeze up and can't get anything done!

On the plus side of NaNoWriMo, I've never been dedicated to a story as much as I have with this one. Each time I go and write a story, my creative and non judging self disappears and out comes the critic, the negative Nancy (who've I've started calling Bethany Jones in a super annoying illustration doodle) the editor that says I should give up on writing and illustration because I'm never going to be quite good enough, not with the competition out there. What chance do I have? With this month challenge, I've been able to go past the editor and the critic. I have 15,600 words and that is more than I had about two weeks ago, I should feel accomplished!

I also finished my little red riding hood piece! That is another goal I met for the month, and maybe with the contest piece finished, I will have more room to write.

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Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. Please enjoy the failures and successes of an inspiring illustrator/author as well as some inspirational posts and those occasional artist rants and comparisons. My blog "Draw it Again" is mainly here to get me motivated, make me work towards creating awesome stories that inspire and entertain kids just like all the great authors and artists out there who inspired and entertained me!